Beer advent Calender

purplekitty

Looking to get my hubs a beer advent calender, but the only ones i can seem to find are in Canada...

Has anyone here ever received one, seen one on this side of the pond?

Any help appreciated...
I know i could just buy 24 bottles of beer, but i want a packaged box or else he would just drink them all :rolleyes:

BeerNut

Ales By Mail does them. £60, plus £15 delivery to Ireland.

adamski8

Get a box and make one i say, it would be way better. Ask in here and we would give you recommendations on what to buy.

Lovely Bloke

Bump

The Weissbier one might be worth a look.

Ravelleman

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Bump

The Weissbier one might be worth a look.

Not a bad proposition at all, though I wonder if the beers pictured correspond to what you actually get.

irish_goat

Ravelleman wrote: »

Not a bad proposition at all, though I wonder if the beers pictures correspond to what you actually get.

I've fired off an email there to see if they have a list. Handy Christmas present for the weiss beer drinking missus if there's a good selection.

Lovely Bloke

I'd say so.

irish_goat

Got a response.

hello ,

There are different types of beer . There are white beer , lager or wheat beer .

Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Ihr Sim-Buy Team


Sandra Wissinger

I assume she doesn't have a lot of English...

random_guy

Will you not get stung with tax and duty on importing?

I asked a similar question before here

BobMc

My dad got wine imported recently and not an additional charge on it, only yesterday the company called him again and he did a repeat order should be here in a couple days, I thought once duty was paid in another EU you're fine, loved the look of the advent one myself so would ne nice to know for sure

the beer revolu

BobMc wrote: »

My dad got wine imported recently and not an additional charge on it, only yesterday the company called him again and he did a repeat order should be here in a couple days, I thought once duty was paid in another EU you're fine, loved the look of the advent one myself so would ne nice to know for sure

Your Dad was lucky (as lots of people are).
However, any alcohol imported is liable for duty and VAT (EU or otherwise).

There are basically 3 possible outcomes to importing alcohol this way.

1. The stuff arrives without additional charge.
2. The stuff arrives but with a bill for the VAT and duty (fair enough really, when you consider that every legal drinks importer has to pay these charges).
3. The stuff is seized by customs and you loose the lot.

BobMc

wow, better give him heads up tis e250.00 worth of italys finest

BobMc

phoned revenue, looking on the site your only liable for Excise duty, not VAT or import duty, trying to find the rate now

the beer revolu

BobMc wrote: »

phoned revenue, looking on the site your only liable for Excise duty, not VAT or import duty, trying to find the rate now

AFAIK, you are liable for VAT too.
Maybe not on the value of the product (if that has been paid locally) but you would be liable for VAT on the duty (yes, tax on tax) and possibly on the carriage costs.

BeerNut

the beer revolu wrote: »

AFAIK, you are liable for VAT too.

Yep:

Where excisable products that have been subject to tax in another Member State and delivered to a private individual in the State, excise duty and VAT must be paid in the State. These "distance sales" include purchases via the internet or by mail order (e.g. from a newspaper advertisement).

The necessary arrangements for payment of the excise duty and VAT (at the standard rate) in the State must be made by the trader who sells and delivers the products. These arrangements include registration for VAT in the State.

Link.

BobMc

so whats the verdict on the beer on groupon, not a mention in t/c's about duty etc, worth a chance or no

irish_goat

BobMc wrote: »

so whats the verdict on the beer on groupon, not a mention in t/c's about duty etc, worth a chance or no

I've taken a punt on it. I'm assuming they're not gonna sting us for duty...

tazwaz

BobMc wrote: »

so whats the verdict on the beer on groupon, not a mention in t/c's about duty etc, worth a chance or no

I went to buy this for my oh and the classic beer is gone. He drinks heineken/carlsberg would you go with the light beer or the wheat beer please?

tazwaz

tazwaz wrote: »

I went to buy this for my oh and the classic beer is gone. He drinks heineken/carlsberg would you go with the light beer or the wheat beer please?

Are they very small bottles?

irish_goat

tazwaz wrote: »

Are they very small bottles?

The light beer one actually looks like decent brands in there. If your OH likes Carslberg and Heineken he should enjoy them. I'd recommend it over the classic box anyway as it's better value cause they're larger bottles (500ml).

tazwaz

irish_goat wrote: »

The light beer one actually looks like decent brands in there. If your OH likes Carslberg and Heineken he should enjoy them. I'd recommend it over the classic box anyway as it's better value cause they're larger bottles (500ml).

Thanks for that, ordered them :-)

dan1895

Anyone got theirs yet? Ordered the other day but no sign yet and December 1st is edging closer.

irish_goat

dan1895 wrote: »

Anyone got theirs yet? Ordered the other day but no sign yet and December 1st is edging closer.

Mines was shipped from Bavaria on Saturday. There's a DPD tracking number with it but it's not working on the DPD site.

Wouldn't expect it to arrive for a few days yet.

dan1895

irish_goat wrote: »

Mines was shipped from Bavaria on Saturday. There's a DPD tracking number with it but it's not working on the DPD site.

Wouldn't expect it to arrive for a few days yet.

DPD? Best spend the next week waiting at the door so. Miss them and they're tricky to arrange an alternative time in my experience.

irish_goat

Have an email now to say the order has been dispatched (again). This time, the DPD tracking is working and it says it's been dispatched from a different part of Bavaria and is currently in a hub near Dortmund. I'd assume it'll be someday next week before I'm seeing it.

michael__67

Anyone had their beer advent calendar delivered yet?

dan1895

michael__67 wrote: »

Anyone had their beer advent calendar delivered yet?

No, waiting over a week at this stage.

slayerking

I ordered the light beer advent calendar for the laugh. I really hope by light they mean 'helles' but we'll see. Haven't heard a thing since though so I doubt I'll see it for at least another week.

Will probably have to do a few sessions to catch up on the calendar by the time it arrives!

irish_goat

Have received another dispatch email and the DPD tracking now says it's in Birmingham. Getting there.

dan1895

irish_goat wrote: »

Have received another dispatch email and the DPD tracking now says it's in Birmingham. Getting there.

I'm not getting any of these dispatch emails. Did you order through Groupon?

MonkstownHoop

dan1895 wrote: »

I'm not getting any of these dispatch emails. Did you order through Groupon?

I haven't got one either

slayerking

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

I haven't got one either

I emailed Groupon today as I hadn't heard anything either. Groupon were able to get me a tracking number but it's not showing up as tracking yet.
They also said to contact the supplier shop@sim-buy.com if it doesn't arrive in the expected time.

MonkstownHoop

slayerking wrote: »

I emailed Groupon today as I hadn't heard anything either. Groupon were able to get me a tracking number but it's not showing up as tracking yet.
They also said to contact the supplier shop@sim-buy.com if it doesn't arrive in the expected time.

I got a tracking number, mines in the UK

slayerking

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

I got a tracking number, mines in the UK

Are you tracking via dpd.ie?

MonkstownHoop

slayerking wrote: »

Are you tracking via dpd.ie?

No the German site

MonkstownHoop

Currently in Athlone

irish_goat

Mines is out for delivery. So I expect to get home and find a scribbled piece of paper telling me the driver missed me and I can collect the parcel in the back arse of county Derry.

Ravelleman

Waiting for delivery would be enough to dissuade me.

dan1895

Two days behind on my drinking of this beer. Anything already missed will be consumed christmas day.

slayerking

Mine arrived this morning.
No plans to use it as an advent calendar really. I'll just dip into it now and again over christmas for the laugh.
So many great Christmas beers in Drinkstore also, I'll be placing a big order there too for Xmas.

MonkstownHoop

Mine was waiting for me at home

irish_goat

Mines got delivered to the apartment next door. Looks quite decent actually, assuming the missus will like it.

LLewellen Farquarson

Hi,
to anybody who is waiting - I chased up my order with DPD (the courier that was supposed to have the delivery), who referred me to Groupon, saying they had recieved the dockets but not the package. Groupon referred me to sim-buy (yep as my dad would say "send the fool further").

Anyway, sent a note off to sim-buy this morning with paste of groupon details (dispatch code etc). This is what I just got back

Dear customer,

unfortunately, there was a small delay of delivery, on account of the big inquiry.
The beer calendars will come all middle to ends to this week with you.
If you do not want to have the beer calendar any more then you refuse pleasethe acceptance.


It does us very much suffer for this delay.

***end of paste**

So I'd say they were innundated with orders and are chasing their teutonic tails trying to fulfill them.

So here's hoping........

dan1895

Anyone else still waiting?

Melendez

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LLewellen Farquarson

dan1895 wrote: »

Anyone else still waiting?

Yep, still gasping........
will email them again by Friday if I haven't heard anything.

I see the offer is back on Groupon - which I'm a bit miffed at. If they haven't been able to fill the first offer (yet) with reasonable speed, why put up another one.

dan1895

Mines in Birmingham apparently!!

dmcdermo

how do you track the order, if I put the number in on the DPD site it says it doesnt recognise it?

irish_goat

dmcdermo wrote: »

how do you track the order, if I put the number in on the DPD site it says it doesnt recognise it?

I found I wasn't able to use the DPD tracking until I got an email from Groupon saying the order had shipped. The email included a link that took me directly to my tracking page. Took a few days before the order had shipped too so maybe give it a while if you've only just bought it.

dan1895

dmcdermo wrote: »

how do you track the order, if I put the number in on the DPD site it says it doesnt recognise it?

I just ended up calling. Ask to be put through to someone who deals with international deliveries.

MonkstownHoop

Log into your Groupon account on the desktop site and you'll find your tracking number, use it on the German dpd site